@asbestos Is it so they can stop women travelling for abortions?

Work.

Current work.

@Andreseloy Cheapskates.

@xanna
Oh yes, I see what you mean totally. I mean, that is really the nature of television, isn't it? After a while they run out of the original idea and have to resort to who the characters are, which is not a problem in itself but as you say, meanders away from the subject.

@xanna Egregious example?

@Marcociappelli
Granted: I AM an inmate of a mental hospital; my keeper is watching me, he never lets me out of his sight; there's a peep-hole in the door, and my keeper's eye is the shade of brown that can never see through a blue-eyed type like me.

@xanna
Well, that's my adhd brain picking up a fragment and running off with it - and for giving me that I thank you! On the subject of stimulants working in a counter-intuitive way I don't have much to add except to note that my younger self considered amphetamine sulphate and dexedrine to be his favourite drugs - looking back I suspect self medication that worked!

@xanna
What I'm trying to do at the moment is reverse the reasoning, so that rather than saying an adhd brain is interested in a task because it encompasses elements of ICNU, rather ICNU exist in the world because of adhd, the nature of our brains reconfigures the world. So, rather than saying Interest, Challenge, Novelty and Urgency are things that stimulate an ADHD brain, and from that we can work out the relationship between ADHD and creativity. Anyway, that's my theory!

@xanna
I would want to examine 'interest, challenge and urgency' etc in terms of what those words actually mean to a human being, but I would imagine that these would lead to a creative output. But it's not a given, e.g. why would urgency lead to a creative result? If the normative drivers of delivery are absent, why does urgency affect an adhd person?

@xanna
That's very interesting, thanks, although I'm wary of absolutist approaches, i.e. NO! THESE are the attributes of adhd. I think it is a more complex and chimeric thing than Additude mag allows most of the time.

@xanna I'd be interested in hearing more about this framework and how it helps you 'view' the world.

@bgzimmer Ah - fair enough!

@TRiG Apologies for my facetious tone!

@TRiG This was three years ago but you’ve just decided you need to get tested tomorrow, right?

@bgzimmer I remember reading that the roots are helico and pter, thus should be spoken very differently. Helico-pter.

@EOAK

@EOAK Ditto curry.